Nimbus-7 Solar and Earth Flux Data in Native Binary Format

Description

The NIMBUS7_ERB_SEFDT data set is the Solar and Earth Flux Data Tape (SEFDT) generated from Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) instrument data. The main purpose of the SEFDT program was to produce a tape containing the solar data and the wide angle terrestrial flux data only. On Nimbus-7, the ERB had two total irradiance channels, Channel 3 and Channel 10C.The Nimbus 7 research-and-development satellite served as a stabilized, earth-oriented platform for the testing of advanced systems for sensing and collecting data in the pollution, oceanographic and meteorological disciplines. The polar-orbiting spacecraft consisted of three major structures: (1) a hollow torus-shaped sensor mount, (2) solar paddles, and (3) a control housing unit that was connected to the sensor mount by a tripod truss structure.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Langley DAAC Project/Campaign Document https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/nimbus7/guide/nimbus7_project.pdf
21 Data set landing page for NIMBUS7_ERB_SEFDT_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/NIMBUS-7/NIMBUS7_ERB_SEFDT_1
33 User's Guide for ERB 7 SEFDT Volume I - User's Guide Volume II - Quality Control Report, Year-l , April 1984 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/nimbus7/guide/user_guide_erb7_sefdt.pdf
21 ASDC Data and Information for Nimbus-7 ERB https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/NIMBUS7
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for NIMBUS7_ERB_SEFDT_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/NIMBUS-7/ERB_SEFDT/
21 Earthdata Search for NIMBUS7_ERB_SEFDT_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C4211374-LARC_ASDC
21 OPeNDAP data access for NIMBUS7_ERB_SEFDT_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/NIMBUS-7/ERB_SEFDT/contents.html

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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